{"id":16682499,"date":"2026-08-26T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/sas-copenhagen-mumbai-route-october-2026-second-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:47:03","slug":"sas-copenhagen-mumbai-route-october-2026-second-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/sas-copenhagen-mumbai-route-october-2026-second-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS Copenhagen&ndash;Mumbai: A Second Attempt After the June Turnback"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Four hours later, somewhere over Azerbaijan, it turned around and flew home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The aircraft had departed without final clearance from India&rsquo;s civil aviation regulator, on the expectation that the paperwork would land while the aeroplane was in the air. It did not. The passengers spent about twelve hours airborne and got off in the city they had started in.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>SAS will try again on 1 October. This time the airline says everything is in place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Route:<\/strong> Copenhagen (CPH) &ndash; Mumbai (BOM), year-round<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Flight numbers:<\/strong> SK969 outbound, SK970 inbound<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Launch date:<\/strong> 1 October 2026 (first Mumbai departure 3 October)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Frequency:<\/strong> Five times weekly<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Airbus A330-300, 266 seats<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Outbound:<\/strong> CPH 16:10 &ndash; BOM 04:30 (+1), Tue\/Thu\/Fri\/Sat\/Sun<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Inbound:<\/strong> BOM 06:30 &ndash; CPH 12:15, Mon\/Wed\/Fri\/Sat\/Sun<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Last SAS service to India:<\/strong> Delhi, ended 2009<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A return to India, not a restored route<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The seventeen-year figure is accurate, but it needs a footnote. SAS flew to Delhi until 2009, when the financial crisis pushed the airline back to its European core, and to Calcutta until 1985. It has never flown to Mumbai. This is a new city pair, not a resurrected one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We are absolutely thrilled to welcome passengers on board our new nonstop service to Mumbai. This strategic route represents an extraordinary milestone for SAS, opening effortless doors between Scandinavia and one of the world&rsquo;s most dynamic economic hubs.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Paul Verhagen<\/strong> &mdash; Chief Commercial Officer, SAS, in the airline&rsquo;s announcement of 17 August 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/mumbai-airport-terminal-2-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of Terminal 2 at Mumbai airport\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. Photo: Anmoljaiswalgeoid OFFICIAL \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Mumbai, and not Delhi<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>On raw local demand, Mumbai is the odd choice. Copenhagen&ndash;Mumbai carried roughly 19,700 round-trip passengers in the year to April 2025 &mdash; fewer than unserved Bengaluru, and well under half of Delhi&rsquo;s 46,000. Delhi is also already served nonstop from Copenhagen by Air India, three times a week.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The answer is the map. Russian airspace has been closed to European carriers since 2022, and it has hurt SAS badly: its departures to Asia excluding the Middle East fell by 71 percent between 2019 and 2025, from 1,285 to 378. Almost every Asian city SAS used to serve now sits behind an expensive detour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mumbai does not. A routing south of the Caucasus and across the Gulf reaches western India with only a modest penalty, which makes it one of the few long-haul Asian markets where a Scandinavian carrier can still make the arithmetic work. The aborted June flight tracked over Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Black Sea, Georgia and Azerbaijan &mdash; no Russian airspace involved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The airline that just gave up on this route<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Here is the part most coverage has missed. SAS is not opening virgin territory. IndiGo launched Mumbai&ndash;Copenhagen on 8 October 2025 using a leased Boeing 787-9, and suspended it from 17 February 2026 until further notice, citing continually changing airspace restrictions and airport congestion that stretched block times beyond what its schedule could absorb.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So SAS arrives on an uncontested nonstop route, seven months after a much larger operator concluded it was not worth flying. The asymmetry is the point: airspace closures bite Indian carriers flying west far harder than they bite European carriers flying east, which is precisely why one airline left and another is arriving.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;India is a key global market &mdash; both in terms of growing demand and economic importance. With this new route, SAS contributes to strengthening Copenhagen&rsquo;s role as a global hub while supporting increased connectivity between India and Northern Europe, as well as between India and North America.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Anko van der Werff<\/strong> &mdash; President and CEO, SAS, on announcing the route in June 2025<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">It is a connecting route wearing a point-to-point badge<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Van der Werff&rsquo;s last clause is the commercial thesis. Five weekly widebody rotations are heavy for 19,700 local passengers, and SAS is not pretending otherwise: the announcement pushes connections to New York, Boston and Toronto, and the Mumbai turnaround is a deliberate four and a half hours to feed the transatlantic bank.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The wider Denmark&ndash;India market was about 155,500 two-way passengers in 2024 and grew 23 percent year on year, but only around 33,000 of those flew nonstop. The rest connected through Dubai, Doha or Frankfurt. That connecting pool, not the local one, is what SAS is aiming at.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The alliance context helps. SAS left Star Alliance on 31 August 2024 and joined SkyTeam the following day. Air France-KLM holds 19.9 percent and has agreed to raise that to 60.5 percent, a deal still awaiting regulatory clearance as of this month, with the Danish state retaining 26.4 percent. IndiGo, meanwhile, has partnerships with Delta, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic &mdash; so the Indian end of this market is being fought over by carriers who are, in other rooms, partners.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On 1 October the aeroplane goes again. 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